joyce888

One of the first FM designs I learned was hearts. Why not fill the white squares with all sizes of hearts connected with a wavy line? If you haven't done them they are easy to start with a wavy line making a dip and starting in the valley of the heart then going left or right (I'm right handed and I go to the left) and forming the first mound tapering to the center then going up the other side back to the center valley and coming out of it with a loopy or wavy line.

Janan

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Would this be hard to do?

Janan

Here is a picture of some of the blocks I have laid out. If I had to do it again, I would change the white fabric to a heavier weight. And only just now I discovered something I was doing wrong with the rulers. Now I wait for the other two pieces to come in the mail and I should finish the quilt top.

I've laid a paper sample of the quilting I will do on the white blocks. I ordered a pattern that consists of more than enough blocks that have adhesive and I sew on the pattern and tear the paper off. If any of you have tips to make this more successful, please let me know!

I have been practicing the "two loops, then a heart" that I would like to do in the sashing. Then I need suggestions for what to do in the colored blocks.

I have begun sewing the strips together for the border and have been saving strips for the binding. See how I have sewn in the Marimekko labels? Somehow, I will incorporate the interpretations. Probably type them up and send them to Spoonflower to make a blocks, then cut the blocks up to add to the border strips. Make sense? lol I think I will also take pictures of the labels from the packages from Finland and include those in what I send to Spoonflower to add to the strips as well.

What do you think?

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